Russia has a strategy of creating the conditions that give rise to corruption, then exploiting that corruption to its own benefit.
AL FRANKENMinnesotans know the difference between the job of satirist and the job of senator. And so do I.
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It is my fondest wish that in the fullness of time, the American people will look back on the Franken presidency as something of a mixed bag and not as a complete disaster.
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This is something I learned only too well years ago when I did a fundraiser for Pol Pot. A few years later I saw ‘The Killing Fields,’ and I’ve got to tell you, I just felt like a schmuck.
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Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that.
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There are as many forms of advice as there are colors of the rainbow. Remember that good advice can come from bad people and bad advice from good people.
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Anyone with an Internet connection and a few dollars can obtain personal information they should never have access to, including a user’s date of birth, e-mail address, or estimated income.
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After my varied and celebrated career in television, movies, publishing, and the lucrative world of corporate speaking, being a fellow at Harvard seemed, frankly, like a step down.
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Whining is anger through a small opening.
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I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I’m happy with it.
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It’s the Power of the Almighty, the Splendor of Nature, and then you.
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He didn’t have a career as such; he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.
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The Republican agenda is a radical vision in which Medicaid is slashed to the bone – in which we start to balance the budget on the backs of, literally, our most vulnerable citizens.
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Liberals like me love America. We just love America in a different way.
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I think that the default for collecting any kind of personal data should be opt-in consent.
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Antitrust law isn’t about protecting competing businesses from each other, it’s about protecting competition itself on behalf of the public.
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Having an actual income can expand your romantic horizons toward the more appealing end of the spectrum.
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I think the Internet has developed at this incredibly rapid pace because of net neutrality, because of the free nature of it, because a YouTube can start the way YouTube started.
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By best, I mean when I have a real sense of doing the right thing and doing good for people and the connected universe of everybody.
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There’s plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it’s a serious business.
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The Medicare Part D prescription drug bill, which might be the most corrupt piece of legislation in history, was a huge giveaway of taxpayer funds to the big pharmaceutical companies.
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People lucky enough to live in the vicinity of an industrial hog farm are, with each breath, made keenly aware of the cause of their declining property values.
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The right wing has had a radio apparatus for years and years, so they’ve had minor leagues.
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And the agencies concluded that the Russians had a clear preference for President Trump.
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I think if you’re going to do a movie about Reagan, you do it about the fact that he created the huge deficit.
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Compared to the American public at large, probably a slightly higher percentage of journalists, because of thier enhanced power of discernment, realize they know a gay person or two, and are, therefore, less frightened of them.
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The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
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I might think they use a little bit too much oil; some people might think it’s a little dry. But the problem with al Qaeda is they want to kill us.
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